“A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical modes of reasoning. Through a series of intuitions, surmises, fancies, they stumble upon the right explanation, and have a knack of seizing it when it once comes within reach.” LittlesUseMysteryMurderStructureSeriesSeekingIntuitionExplanationFancyReasoningLogicalFormalDetectivesCompoundsChemistKnackSeizingWithin ReachMurder MysteriesStumble Upon Author:Gilbert N. Lewis
“The scientist is a practical man and his are practical (i.e., practically attainable) aims. He does not seek the ultimate but the proximate. He does not speak of the last analysis but rather of the next approximation. His are not those beautiful structures so delicately designed that a single flaw may cause the collapse of the whole. The scientist builds slowly and with a gross but solid kind of masonry. If dissatisfied with any of his work, even if it be near the very foundations, he can replace that part without damage to the remainder.” IfsMenKindMayDoeWholeLastsBeautifulScienceNextSpeakCausesUltimateScientistAimFoundationStructurePracticalsAnalysisDamageFlawsCollapseGrossDissatisfiedMasonryApproximationProgress In Science Author:Gilbert N. Lewis
